Distorting the law : politics, media, and the litigation crisis
Actions and defenses Law in mass media Law Sociological jurisprudence Torts Actions et défenses dans la presse Droit dans les médias Droit Responsabilité civile dans la presse Sociologie juridique Berichterstattung Massenmedien Rechtspolitik Rechtsprechung sähkökirjat
University of Chicago Press
2004
EISBN 9780226314693
The social production of legal knowledge.
Pop torts : tales of legal degeneration and moral regeneration.
In retort : narratives versus numbers.
ATLA shrugged : plaintiffs' lawyers play defense.
Full tort press : media coverage of civil litigation.
Java jive : genealogy of a juridical icon.
Smoke signals from the tobacco wars.
Law through the looking glass of mass politics.
In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the m.
Pop torts : tales of legal degeneration and moral regeneration.
In retort : narratives versus numbers.
ATLA shrugged : plaintiffs' lawyers play defense.
Full tort press : media coverage of civil litigation.
Java jive : genealogy of a juridical icon.
Smoke signals from the tobacco wars.
Law through the looking glass of mass politics.
In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the m.
